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5ttgge\sttons and Recommendations. 



WE RECOMMEND that there be a close season of one month for whitefish 

 during their spawning season. With the work being done by the Com- 

 missioners in stocking lakes and the close season of one month, while 

 spawning, we feel confident that this most valuable fish can be restored to the great 

 lakes and made plentiful in several of the smaller ones throughout the State. 



The Commissioners having made a successful start in rearing game birds, have 

 gone as far as their very limited means would permit, and would recommend that an 

 appropriation be granted for the construction of suitable enclosures and the further 

 continuance of the work. With the birds on hand and a small appropriation, 500 

 Mongolian pheasants could be reared and distributed this year. 



We recommend that the law of 1898, which provided a bounty for the seizure and 

 destruction of illegal devices for the taking of fish, be amended by the reduction of the 

 bounties, and a safeguard against a repetition of the frauds that were practiced during 

 the past year. 



We recommend that an appropriation of $2,000 be made for the care and main- 

 tenance of the lands recently purchased on the St. Lawrence River. 

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